The peninsula had disappeared from the first pages of international media outlets long ago. Ukrainian journalists rarely travel for stories from Crimea. The only ones who stir up the information wave come from inside the occupied peninsula...
On 27 March, in its largest raid yet, Russian special services tore into the homes of several dozen Crimean Tatar families in occupied Crimea. Read more: Russia arrests 23 Crimean Tatars after largest raid ever in occupied Crimea Sons,...
On 24 August 2017, 19-year-old Ukrainian student Pavlo Hryb went to meet a girl. Then he got kidnapped by the Russian FSB, tortured, transported more than one thousand kilometers away, and accused of aiding terrorism, becoming one of the...
The mission to Crimea met with more than 50 people, including victims of human rights violations and their relatives; mothers and wives of political prisoners; as well as journalists, lawyers, and civic activists. Many people spoke of...
The premiere of the documentary “Putin’s Hostages: Ukrainian political prisoners of the Kremlin” was held on 23 January 2019, at a PACE session in Strassbourg. The film, which tells about the phenomenon of the 70...
The 57-year-old Crimean Tatar activist, who had for 18 years suffered from numerous health conditions, was apprehended at the border checkpoint between Ukraine and Russian-occupied Crimea on 12 December. Like most Crimean Tatars out of the...
In the late 1920s to early 1930s, Soviet authorities continuously targeted different groups of intellectuals with repressive measures. Among them, trials against the so-called “Union for Ukraine’s Liberation” (SVU) – an...
This is the fourth year we’re inviting you to join the holiday letter-writing campaign to the Ukrainian hostages of the Kremlin of the #LetMyPeopleGo campaign. In 2015, there were 21 Ukrainians jailed on political motives in Russia....
Former political prisoner and Crimean Euromaidan activist Oleksandr Kostenko continues to experience severe health problems after injuries sustained during torture and beatings by Russian FSB officers. It all started on February 5, 2015,...
On 12 December 2018, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling to stop the construction of the NordStream2 pipeline and condemned Russia’s aggression in the Kerch Strait, calling for imposing additional targeted sanctions...
When Ukrainian prosecutors released audio intercepts that appeared to show the direct involvement of Kremlin top advisor Sergey Glazyev in Russia’s takeover of Crimea and pro-separatist rallies in eastern Ukraine in August 2016, they...
